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If anything becomes of the "mine for gold" could we also impliment "mine for silver"?

Silver would be a very cool idea if this gets implemented

Hi,

I am currently thinking this through very thoroughly. There's half a gazillion things to consider - most and bevore all: Is there enough interest to make this viable?

I would propose that those who are interested in saving up to gold or silver contact me via PM - the whole process would have to be initiated manually. This is how I envision it for the time being:

you contact me with the following info:

name / adress / email

what you want to save up to

your savings interval

I will provide you with a payment adress you can send the BTC to. These are stored with my payment provider.

The savings interval is of importance only if you're saving for, say, Gold - and you don't want to by gramm by gramm, but only every 10 or 20 grams. Else, I will check every working day if one of the desired objects is in range and "buy" it for you. I advise harmonies, since they're most easy to buy and liquidate and sport the lowest premium, but feel free to chose whatever you want.The prices on my website are updated every minute. I am not yet able to set an alarm for buying, so for now, we will have to to with me checking the price against your balance once a day (I will probably check more often than that, just for the fun of it).

I will then transfer BTC according to the price of the item(s) from "your" wallet adress to mine, so you can watch the process on blockexplorer. I will set aside the item(s) physically and store them seperately from the rest of my inventory.

Should you decide to cash out, contact me and I will provide you with shipping and insurance information (it might be that you may have to buy insurance and additional shipping, depending on the value of the objects and your location).

Tax and customs are, as always, entirely your concern :-D

So that's me bouncing this right into the community. Anyone interested?

Hey slush, looking at my acct, it looks like I should have received a nmc payout around 17:00 UTC on 11/20, and I never received a notification in regards to that payment.

My nmc addy is still correct, and I received notifications about btc payments before and after that time period. I can't confirm whether or not I actually received the payment as I'm at work right now. When I go to lunch I can check my nmc wallet to see if I received the payment, but at the least it looks like there is something fishy with the notifications...?

Looks like it's problem of btcstats.net. You can see that hashrate in API is correct...

The btcstats.net web server is not able to retrieve stats (it's timing out).

A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 176.31.157.133:80

The exact same sig generating code works fine when run from my machine (i.e. my desk machine has no problem retrieving stats). Could it be that the real btcstats.net webserver (66.209.128.147) it is blocked by your DDoS protection system or something?

Is the pool using port 8404 for longpolls instead of a /LP/ like path.

Looks like cgminer messed the parsing of URL, for some unknown reason. Port 8332 is "getwork" api, ports 8401-8410 are for LP broadcasts. That HTTP header for LP in getwork response is providing full URL for 8404 port. Can you report that to cgminer author?

Hi, my average hashrate is usually around 2200 Mhash/s, but the screen says 596 Mhash/s. Could it have something to do with that problem?

Average hashrate is calculated from submitted shares in last 10 rounds. It can be explained by some connection issues or if your miner was offline for some time. Did you have some connection issues today?

Is the pool using port 8404 for longpolls instead of a /LP/ like path.

Looks like cgminer messed the parsing of URL, for some unknown reason. Port 8332 is "getwork" api, ports 8401-8410 are for LP broadcasts. That HTTP header for LP in getwork response is providing full URL for 8404 port. Can you report that to cgminer author?

Is the pool using port 8404 for longpolls instead of a /LP/ like path.

Looks like cgminer messed the parsing of URL, for some unknown reason. Port 8332 is "getwork" api, ports 8401-8410 are for LP broadcasts. That HTTP header for LP in getwork response is providing full URL for 8404 port. Can you report that to cgminer author?